I am writing about Techy5's new colored chat CSM for him. He made it for my request, so least i could do. It allows you to set custom colors for certain players chat. You can set a custom color with .setcolor username color (hex or standard color names like red, pink, purple, etc.) You can remove someone's custom color with .delcolor playername. You can see a list of all the people you have added colors for and their colors with .listcolors. He did an awesome job so far, though he says it is still WIP, and may have bugs. here is his code so far for the CSM:

local chatSource = function(msg) -- Find out who was talking to us if string.sub(msg, 1, 1) == "<" then -- Normal messages local parts = string.split(msg, ">") -- Split it at the closing > return string.sub(parts[1], 2, string.len(parts[1])) -- Return the first part minus the first character elseif string.sub(msg, 1, 2) == "* " then -- /me messages local parts = string.split(msg, " ") -- Split the message before and after the name return parts[2] -- Return the name (this one is easy) end return false -- If nothing else returned, return falseend

minetest.register_chatcommand("setcolor", { -- Assign a colour to chat messages from a specific person params = "<name> <color>", description = "Colourize a specified player's chat messages", func = function(param) local args = string.split(param, " ") -- Split up the arguments local setName = "player_" .. args[1] -- The setting name to set local color = args[2] if not color then -- If a color was not specified, use the default color. color = dColor end data:set_string(setName, color) minetest.display_chat_message("Player color set sucessfully!") end})

He is definitely open to help and suggestions, and would greatly appreciate the bug finders and fixers who might want to help out.

To install a CSM, you should navigate to you minetest directory, create a folder called "clientmods", create a second folder within that is called "colored_chat", and also in the clientmods directory, create a mods.conf file, and make line 1 say "load_mod_colored_chat = true", and line 2 say "load_mod_preview = false". Save this file as mods.conf. Then go into your colored_chat directory within the clientmods directory, and make a file called "init.lua". Copy and paste the code into it, and save it. Then go to settings, search "client", you will see "Client modding", set that to Enabled. After that you are all set to have custom colored chat!

Techy5 prefers anonymity, he only sent me the code via pastebucket because it was anonymous. He is looking at the forum, but he will not join with an account i don't think. As for license, I will ask him next time i see him how he wants to license the CSM.

A note to Techy5: if you wanted to post this topic instead, I can change the owner of this topic

???

For the past 12 months I've been submitting questions (even PMing moderators) requesting a change to the author of my server topic, since maikerumine transferred ownership to me last December. My requests have always gone unanswered. And other users have said it simply can't be done. How come now it is suddenly possible?

sorcerykid wrote:For the past 12 months I've been submitting questions (even PMing moderators) requesting a change to the author of my server topic, since maikerumine transferred ownership to me last December. My requests have always gone unanswered. And other users have said it simply can't be done. How come now it is suddenly possible?

Have you tried reporting the opening post you want to change, with some proof that maikerumine transferred ownership?

It's also possible that the moderator that saw your requests didn't know it was possible